Today’s status of the profession and those who practice it results from an evolution over thousands of...
History
The “age of extremes” from 1914 to 1945 created renewed demand for cheap supplies of protein. One...
Eighteenth-century medical practitioners faced menaces like cholera, dysentery, measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, syphilis, typhus, typhoid, tuberculosis, and...
Sometimes, stories of heroism reveal themselves in the most unusual and humble ways. By Sandra Vea The...
After the attack by the Japanese Empire on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, American attitudes towards...
Westerners were a feature of late-19th-century China, albeit a much smaller presence than Thomson would have us...
Thomson’s photographic medium possessed qualities that draw the attention of viewers and lay claim to a degree...
In 1890, Henry Adams – the historian, academic, journalist, and descendant of two US presidents – set...
Lambert literally represented one quarter of the new nation. The Islands of Refreshment consisted of four people....
Is the human body innately terrestrial, unsuited to a prolonged time away from its earthly element? On...
For Freetown colony’s whites, and Henry’s friends and family in Sierra Leone, his story quickly boiled over....
Their heyday was in the last hundred years of their existence, during the time of the Stuart...
There are lessons from ancient history that could prove instructive. A caravan of Goths – the Thervingi...
He believed that faster news meant diminished quality. According to a recently released Pew Center survey, almost...
Henry David Thoreau might appear to be very ill-adapted for the modern West – but his writing...
There is a time to embrace the joy of doing less. In The Art of the Wasted Day,...
Henry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms. A century and a half...
Navigation of the sea is shown to have commenced in the order of one million years ago....
Scotland has its own independent legal system, education system and religious institutions, and gay men were criminalized...
One of the biggest challenges facing medieval historians is interpreting the actions of individuals at a remove...
The problem with mixing religion and politics was that political issues became moral issues and, therefore, more...
Controversies surrounding the 1830 Indian Removal Act reflected the Early Republic’s problem of church and state. “I...
Most Carthaginian gods were inherited from the Phoenicians, but these were adapted, and their names and functions...
The Phoenician Religion, as in many other ancient cultures, was an inseparable part of everyday life. By...
The year 2011 marked the 100th anniversary of the children’s classic The Secret Garden. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina,...
In 1741 the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg published Klimii Iter Subterraneum, a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel detailing the...
The subtext is almost always that the Western paradigm of modernity. A single model of modernity? The...
Examining the centuries’-old sectarian Shia-Sunni divide. Tensions between Sunnis and Shias have been flaring up, with several...
Archaic and classical Greek culture was steeped in spirit. Archaic and classical Greek culture was steeped in...
Warfare and terrorism have long laid waste to historical sites. Many of us may remember Syrian archaeologist...